Episode 55: Better Built By Burkhard

Be smart about introducing programmers to customers, but do it!

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

macOS Sequoia, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is available today as a free software update for Mac.

Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…

 Python in Excel is now generally available for Windows users of Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise. Last August, in partnership with Anaconda, we...

The media has made the drugs about body politics and our obsession with thinness. They’re telling the wrong story.

In the early 1980s, Drexel became the first university in the country to require all students to have a personal computer, a mandate made possible through a first-of-its-kind partnership with Apple Inc.

The loss dealt a big blow to its effort to build its fledgling foundry business.

Discover the story of the K340A, a one-of-a-kind computer that powered the Soviet Union's ambitious Duga radar system during the Cold War. Designed in 1966 and based on the Residue Classes System, it achieved a performance of 1 million operations per second…

Most of us don’t eat as much fruit and veggies as we know we should, but that goal might now be a bit more achievable. Scientists in Spain have engineered a new “Golden Lettuce” with 30 times more nutrients than the regular green stuff.

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None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative…

Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.

WIP: Next-gen network protocol for reliable data transfer in lossy environments. Outperforms TCP/UDP in high packet loss scenarios. - nyxpsi/nyxpsi

Amazon's AWS cloud computing division already designs several chips for use in its data centers and has hired Intel to package at least one version.

Rearchitecting core services at X